Purchasing & Finance Officer

Department: School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences
Salary: £31,421 - £38,165 per annum (Grade 3)
Reference: 1914
Location: Mile End
Date posted: 29 April 2024
Closing date: 13 May 2024

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About the Role

We are seeking to recruit a Purchasing and Finance Officer to provide logistical and technical support to the School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences. The post-holder will be responsible for three key operational aspects of the School, stores management, procurement and financial. Working closely with the Finance Manager the successful candidate will develop and maintain a broad professional network both internally and externally to Queen Mary to ensure all School activities are appropriately supported and compliant with relevant policies and legislation.

About You

You should have experience of working with financial records/administration procedures and knowledge of legislation around financial and procurement regulations. Numeracy skills including effective reconciliations, managing varying VAT status & rates, currency conversion, monitoring of expenditure against budget are also essential. A good understanding of the Higher Education sector is desirable.

About the School

The School of Biological & Behavioural Sciences (SBBS) is one of five Schools in the Faculty of Science and Engineering. It is one of the largest Schools at Queen Mary University of London, with approximately 1800 students and c100 academic staff members, who carry out excellent education, research and public engagement activities, with support from 32 administrative staff and 26 technical staff.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
In return, we offer 30 days’ leave per annum, access to a pension scheme, a season ticket loan scheme and competitive salaries. We also offer enhanced family friendly leave, and an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus. You will also work with a friendly team, with personal development opportunities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability.

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